Shakey's Madness: Does a Mental Disorder Reveal the "Real" William Shakespeare?: Does
By Robert Boog
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Robert Boog
Robert Boog is a graduate of UCLA with a BA in British literature. He works as a real estate broker and owns a real estate company with his wife Roxana. Besides hanging out with his wife, in his spare time, Robert enjoys writing books and songs, long walks to the refrigerator (or Starbucks) and petting his dogs.
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Shakey's Madness - Robert Boog
Preface
A
t my house, my main job besides feeding the dogs, and picking up the dog poop, involves taking out the trash. Come Friday, I wheel three large trash bins out to the street.
We have lived at the same house for over 20 years, and the trash truck comes on Friday morning. I had a perfect record of taking the bins to the curb -- until a couple of months ago, when I slipped up.
I forgot to bring the bins out to the street! No biggie, right?
But then the following week, I forgot again!
My wife did not find it amusing. Robert,
she said, This cannot happen again. In fact, next week, you had better bring those bins out to the street by Thursday evening. Or else.
Then she stomped off leaving me to wonder what or else
meant.
Fast forward to the following week.
Thursday evening found me wheeling the trash bins to the street when I caught a glimpse of my next-door neighbor doing the same thing. He took one look at me and started to laugh. He said, Dang, dude. You sure have a lot of trash!
I said, Yeah man, well, what about you?
Nah, we hardly have anything,
he said. See, we have been on vacation for the past two weeks.
Then it dawned on me.
I had been stealing my neighbor’s cue. Seeing his trash cans parked out on the curb was what had reminded me to bring out our trash cans.
Similarly, when it comes to the authorship of William Shakespeare, most of us have a comparable blind allegiance.
We have been taught that William Shakespeare authored the poems, plays, and sonnets attributed to him. So, why should we doubt it? In fact, if you do question it, some folks will say, You must be crazy, because no legitimate scholar questions his authorship.
You might even be labeled a flat earth believer,
a crank,
or a conspiracy theorist
and who wants that? But thousands of intelligent people HAVE doubted the Bard’s authorship.
Famous people too, like Sigmund Freud. Henry James. Malcolm X, Charlie Chaplin, and Mark Twain. It has been going on for a long time!
So, why doubt Shakespeare?
You will find out in a minute, and I am going to offer you my own original opinion.
Remember, the Webster-Meriam dictionary defines an opinion
as a generally held belief
that implies a conclusion thought out yet open to dispute.
You can freely agree, disagree, or come up with your own hypothesis.
But, after reading this book, hopefully you will decide to fact-check me at the library, Google, Bing, YouTube or wherever you do your research.
My experience? I graduated from UCLA with a BA in British Literature. I enjoy the works attributed to William Shakespeare. In fact, so much, I rewrote one of his sonnets (my instructor’s favorite). You will find my masterpiece in this book too.
My instructor did say, We know more about the life of Jesus Christ than we do of William Shakespeare,
and for some reason that remark stuck with me. But to be honest, for about 35 years I did not think that much about Shakespeare because I attended graduate school at the college of hard knocks.
I work in the highly competitive field of Los Angeles real estate.
Listing homes, flipping homes, staging homes, selling homes, and condos? You name it. I have done it. I have listed and sold everything from vacant land to million-dollar mansions.
In other words, I come from the world where all buyers are liars, agents cannot be trusted, and sellers often do not tell the truth.
One time, for example, the seller of a vacant parcel of land told me that his property featured a water well that pumped 7.5 gallons per minute. He even emailed me a document from a water well company to prove it.
This convinced my buyer to want to submit a full-price bid because to build a new home on vacant land, the Los Angeles County Building and Safety Department requires that a water well pumps at a minimum of 7.5 gallons per minute.
To verify, I called the company that had drilled the well and spoke to the well-driller who told me, If it says 7.5 gallons per minute on the document then why don’t you believe it?
I said, I am sorry sir, but could I just email you this document? I am just not familiar with these things.
After reviewing the document, he called me and said, You have a well-share agreement for three vacant parcels of land. The well currently pumps water at 7.5 gallons per minute- allowable for one house, but not for any additional homes.
After relaying his words to the buyers, we moved on and, I helped them purchase a different property.
A picture containing person, posing, suit Description automatically generated Want to know one thing I have found after dealing with sharks and very smart people? Do NOT accept something to be true just because someone tells you it is true.
You must think like a detective, investigate things, and then doublecheck them.
Like the TV detective, Mr. Monk.
Chapter 1
Introducing Mr. Monk
I
have a confession to make. I am a Monkaholic. One of my favorite TV detective programs is Monk and I have watched every single episode.
The show features Tony Shalhoub who portrays a quirky, former police detective named Adrian Monk who has OCD (obsessive-compulsive disorder) and a wide variety of phobias which often help him to solve complex crimes.
In the episode, Mr. Monk Bumps His Head, for example, a case of amnesia helps Monk to rediscover his weaknesses and strengths.
For Monkaholics like me, watching Monk figuring things out in a brand-new environment makes me smile. He has over three hundred phobias including fears of milk, heights, and things out of balance. So, with his amnesia, when Monk honestly believes a woman who claims him as her husband, it is cringeworthy to see him do things that would normally appall him.
But hearing Monk talk about how he truly feels about himself, others, and his life Text Description automatically generated makes one consider the life of William Shakespeare.
What challenges and setbacks in his life did he have? How did he handle them? Why don’t we know anything about him?
Most of us have been taught that writers should write about what they know
but, if William Shakespeare hailed from Stratford-upon-Avon, and was a commoner,
why did he not write about, commonplace stuff?
Why did he fill his plays with foreign places like Italy and Greece? Why feature nobles, aristocratic pursuits, and things an ordinary person would know nothing about? In the Merchant of Venice, for example, Shylock talks about meeting at the Rialto
which was a bridge. It would not show up on any maps.
How would someone who never left England know about it?
Yet playbills, the book of Sonnets and the First Folio which contains a collection of Shakespeare's thirty-six plays identify William Shakespeare as the author of the Shakespeare canon. Experts repeatedly tell us there is no direct evidence to prove that anyone other than William Shakespeare was the author of the Shakespeare canon.
Thankfully, lack of direct evidence has not stopped prosecutors from winning court cases involving serial killers.
Or should we just leave well enough alone? After all, no one has doubted Shakespeare’s authorship in over 300 years. Does it even matter?
What would Mr. Monk say?
Chapter 2
Why Doubt Shakespeare?
Y
ou might be thinking, Who cares whether or not William Shakespeare wrote the works attributed to him?
And I get it because many people have felt this way. Over 400 years have passed and there is no direct proof existing for any other candidate. But what we have found is that a literary crime may have been committed, so why not look at this like a cold case mystery? One where clues have been left behind for armchair detectives like you and me and Mr. Monk.
Then again, maybe I am getting ahead of myself, because in most episodes of Monk, don’t viewers get to see some kind of back story? So, let us back up a bit, shall we?
A Royal Serial Killer?
Did you know that King Henry VIII married six times and beheaded two of his wives because they failed to produce a male heir? It is true. Then, after Henry passed away, his son, King Edward VI died at age 15 after holding the throne for six years. Next came, England’s first true female monarch, Queen Bloody
Mary, and finally Queen Elizabeth I who ruled England for over 44 years.
So, Queen Elizabeth I was the daughter of King Henry VIII the man who had beheaded two of his wives. Elizabeth has been called the Virgin Queen
because she never married, but the word virgin
somehow implies innocence and chasteness. Was she a flawless woman who was as pure as the driven snow?
No. Elizabeth was brutally cunning and could be as fickle, ferocious, and ruthless as her father. Fiercely Protestant, during her reign, 125 Roman Catholic priests met a violent end -- disemboweled before they met their maker. Why? Because the priests had heard the confessions